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Save Norton Folgate - Londoner

David is the curator of Dennis Sever’s House, which is located in an area of Spitalfields that has 18th century houses and warehouses, and holds great historical importance. The City of London have plans to gentrify the area, which David is campaigning to stop. 1000 LONDONERS This film is part of 1000 Londoners, a five-year digital project which aims to create a digital portrait of a city through 1000 of the people who identify themselves with it. The profile contains a 3 minute film that gives an insight into the life of the Londoner, as well as their personal photos of London and some answers to crucial questions about their views on London life. Over the course of the project we aim to reveal as many facets of the capital as possible, seeing city life from 1000 points of view. www.1000londoners.com    / 1000londoners   www.facebook.com/1000londoners Twitter: @1000_londoners 1000 Londoners is produced by South London based film production company and social enterprise, Chocolate Films. The filmmakers from Chocolate Films will be both producing the films and providing opportunities to young people and community groups to make their own short documentaries, which will contribute to the 1000 films. Visit www.chocolatefilms.com Transcript: Here we are outside of Dennis Severs' House, in the district of Liberty of Norton Folgate, which is in fact the very site we're fighting to save from the destruction and re-development by British Land. For the last 16 years I've been the curator of Dennis Severs' House. My real responsibilities is to maintain the house and take it forward into the future as it always has done. This room I've slept in on and off for the last 25 years of my life. So the house really has the sense of being home. It's a great piece of magic and wonder that, you know, Dennis left us. It's a rare jewel in the city that seems to be building itself into towers of glass. Here we are, standing outside the only few surviving early 18th century houses, in the Liberty of Norton Folgate. Under the plans of British Land, there won't be any shops here, these buildings will stay, all the facades will stay but actually, you know, we won't be looking at blue sky, we'll be looking at glass that reflects the sky. As we bask in the reflected light from the skyscraper. I thought I'd just throw that in, in case anybody watching this thinks oh God, they've got the lighting a bit wrong. I grew up always in old buildings. I went to a school that was, you know, started life as a medieval monastery and I've always had a liking for old things. This city's thousands of years old. Sadly, the big threat now of course is that everybody wants to remove it. There will be no trace of any human being who ever struggled and lived within a chamber like this that was once a home. That's what this house is, and that's really what this whole campaign is about, to enable people to live her and to not just flow in their hundreds and thousands and out again, into the suburbs of the city for buildings that actually we don't need. It's beautiful isn't it? There's nothing left of the original interiors and it's everything that's happening now. You can keep the facade of a historic listed building but everything else can go inside of it and that's of course is everything that British Land want to do. And up here, that's the face of the new city.